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dTheatre: Razzies Announced
Comedy bomb “Bewitched,” Jessica Simpson and her mind-numbing “Dukes of Hazzard” and Tom Cruise were all recognized by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for being among 2005’s most shameful show business products. The Razzies, celebrating their 26th year of pointing out who sucks, have once again nominated the worst of the worst for this year’s dishonors. Click over for the list, or visit Razzies.com.
A report published by the British government today warns that climate change could be approaching the point where it becomes irreversible. BBC News has the story.
Prime Minister Blair writes of the report:
it is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases … is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.
The White House issued a statement welcoming the report into the “marketplace of ideas.” At seeing the thermographic images of the red globe, however, the President expressed disappointment that his copy had “already been colored in.”
Medieval Christian theologians are best remembered for their groundbreaking and highly influential work in the complex philosophical issues of their day, issues such as the number of angels capable of dancing simultaneously on the head of a pin.
Saturday’s New York Times gives us the modern day equivalent in the form of ethics and espionage. At a conference this weekend populated by current and former intelligence officers and related academia, conferees attempted to answer such profundities as “how many civilian deaths can be justified in a C.I.A. Predator missile strike to kill a known terrorist.”
$5 says no matter what comes out of this conference, the Pentagon’s answer to this question is going to be the same as our medieval Christians regarding the footloose angels: infinite.
LA Times: Hamas Is Legit
The militant group Hamas won a resounding victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections today, in a stunning result that threw prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks into disarray.
Members of the group reportedly asked whether this means they can stop wearing those itchy masks when they’re on TV.
My co-worker receives an e-mail newsletter from a French conspiracy theorist once a week, or so. It arrives both in French and roughly-translated English. The author of the letter is obviously serious about “the business of the DOG and the French secret service,” a quote that is seen quite a bit throughout the articles. I was going to wait until I had all 15 or 16 of the e-mails so I could post them in order over the next few weeks, but I realized their order doesn’t matter. The guy’s nuttiness is apparent in his assertions, but is compounded in the broken English, so it makes for a good read in terms of both its content and its quality. There’s something for everyone here.
The continuation of the conneries of the French secret service.
And now that their secrecy is discovered,
they try to insulate to me by inventing anything,
they are foreseeable. The team which infiltrated them me prevented,
I am not the first which they swindle and thereafter use their technology on
them,
except that me I am given A as fast as possible to leave me this built
situation of any part by the latter.
